Stove-top support.



G. E. HEIDBREDER & A. OHNEMUS.

STOVE TOP SUPPORT.

APPLICATION FILED our. 31, 1913.

Patented July 14, 1914,

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ATTORNEYS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE E. HEIDBREDER AND ANTON OHNEMUS, OF QUINCY, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR-S TO EXCELSIOR STOVE AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF QUINCY, ILLINOIS, A

CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

STOVE-TOP SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 14, 1914.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, GEORGE E. HEID- canons and ANTON Oi-INEMUs, citizens of the United States, and residents of Quincy, in the county of Adams and State of Illinois, have made certain new and useful Improvements in Stove-Top Supports, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to stove top supports, and it consists in the combinations, constructions, and. arrangements herein described and claimed.

An object of our invention is to provide an adjustable device which may serve as the support for the loose cross piece of a cooking stove which forms a portion of the top of the stove and which supports the lids.

The main object of the invention is to provide a support of the kind described above having a base provided with a socket to receive the support, said socket being arranged to permit the shifting of the position of the support, thereby permitting it to enter farther into the socket so as to lower the top of the support while holding the same firmly locked in its shifted position.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the following specification and the novel features of the device will be particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

Our invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings forming part of this application in which- Figure 1 is a plan view of a stove or range showing the position of the support ing device, Fig. 2 is a side view of the support in its normal position, Fig. 3 is a view of the support at right angles to Fig. 2, Fig. 4c is a view similar to Fig. 3, but show-- ing the post shifted with respect to the base, Fig. 5 is a view through the support and base in the relative position shown in Fig. 4, Fig. 6 is a section along the line 6-6 of Fig. 5, and Fig. 7 is a plan view of the base.

In carrying out our invention we provide a base member 1 (see Fig. 7) having an elongated slot 2 by means of which it may be secured to the top of the oven 8. This base portion is provided with flanges 4 on opposed sides and with o posed flanges 5 on the other two sides, t e latter flanges being of less height than the flanges 4:- The base is also provided with two upwardly projecting lugs 6.

The provision of the flanges 4 and 5 probottom which are designed to receive the lugs 6 in a certain position of the post 7 with respect to the base 1. The bottom portion of the post 7 is provided with an enlargement 7 which has beveled sides (see Fig. 5) arranged to enter the socket of the base member 1.. On two sides of the enlargement 7 are outwardly extending flanges T (see Figs. 6 and 3).

From the foregoing description of the various parts of the device the operation thereof may be readily understood.

In many stoves or ranges such as that shown at 8 in Fig. 1, the lids 9 are partly supported. by a removable cross piece 10 which in turn is supported at substantially its center by a post which is secured to the top of the oven. Since this cross piece 10 has to be removed it is designed to merely rest on the post so that it can be readily. lifted up. It frequently happens that owing to the heat of the stove or range the cross member 10 will warp downwardly, while from the same cause the oven top will warp upwardly. This causes the cross member 10 to be pushed upwardly so as to make the top section of the stove or range uneven. Our device is for the purpose of enabling one to correct this unevenness.

The base 1 is secured to the oven top 3, as before stated, and the post 7 is placed on the base in the manner shown in Figs. 2 and 3. From these figures it will be seen that the flanges 7 on the lower part of the post 7 rest upon the flanges 4 of the base, which, as stated before, are higher than the flanges 5. The outer parts of the enlarged portion 7* of the post 7 fit in the socket provided by the flanges 4t and 5, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. The cross member 10 rests directly on the top of the post 7 the normal position of the parts when the stove is first set up being shown in Fig. 3. V

When new the oven 3 and the cross member 10 have been used for some time and have warped or bent as described the post 7 may be given a quarter turn so that the flanges 7 will now rest on the flanges 5 (see Figs. 4 and 6) thus permitting the post 7 to seat itself lower in the base, thus accommodating itself to the shorter distance between the oven top and the cross member 10 owing to the warping of these parts.

The diflerence in the height of the support in one position andthat in another position is clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4 in which Fig. 3 shows the normal position, as stated, and Fig. 4 shows the shifted position.

It will thus be seen that we have provided a support which is securely held in position, but which may be shifted so as to accommodate itself to the different conditions arising from the warping of the parts. Moreover the support when in either position is positively locked bythe engagement of the flanges of the base with that of the support, so that there is no danger of the device shifting its position and working loose.

' o claim I 1. Ina stove top support, a base having a vertically disposed socket, a post having a bottom portion formed to enter a socket in the base, said post beingshiftable to a position at right angles to its normal position and being formed to enter farther into the socket and to be positively locked against 3 rotation in its shifted position, thereby decreasing the height of the support.

The combination with a base, of a pair of opposed side flanges carried thereby, a second pair of opposed side flanges disposed 3 at right angles to the first mentioned flanges, said second pair of opposed side flanges being of a less height than the first mentioned side flanges, a post having a bottom arranged to enter between both pairs ofop- 4 posed side flanges and being provided with a pair of outwardly extending flanges on opposite sides of the post adapted torest on either pair of opposed sidefla-nges.

3. In a device for supporting stove tops, a 4 base provided with a socket, a post formed to enter said socket in one position and to enter farther into the socket in a position at right angles to its first position, said post being positively locked against rotationby 5 its engagement with the base in either of its operative positions.

GEORGE E. HEIDBREDER. ANTON OHNEMUS.

Witnesses: i

F. A. Dimrrions'r, JAMES L. ROY CLEM,

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Washington, D. C. i 

